At the same time, in the second-class passenger area of the Star of Hope, the passengers here are fully armed and guarded in various vital parts, they do not show too nervous looks, in fact, most of the people like them who have been on a trip to those lost cities on the Veron continent and come out alive have temporarily forgotten their fear and fear, the current pirates are no different from those monsters hidden in the city and want to eat them at any time, killing pirates is their only way out.

Although the people here are all surviving adventurers, and their identities are the same in the eyes of others, if you look closely at the defense lines they have arranged according to their own ideas, it is not difficult to see that there is still a difference in status between them adventurers.

The scattered adventurers were all arranged near the entrances of the second-class cabin, belonging to the first layer of defense, and these adventurers were all armed with weapons such as mechanical bows and crossbows.

The second layer of defense is a team of more than a dozen adventurers in the form of squads, these people are armed with different weapons, and even some transcendents such as shamans and wizards exist, who are guarded in several small cabins not far from the entrance according to their own habits, ready to take over the adventurers of the first layer of defense.

The last layer of defense is a large adventurous team composed of three dozen people, they arrange the defense line completely according to their own will, two of the adventurous teams choose to arm outside the cabin, and even move out of the various furniture in the cabin, and the adventurers who command other defense lines form fortifications, from their arrangement, it is not difficult to see that there should be officers and other people who have been on the battlefield, because all the fortifications are very similar to military fortifications.

As for the last adventure team, while everyone was making various preparations to meet the pirates, they very abruptly locked themselves in their cabin suite, as if they didn't want to fight the pirates at all.

Although everyone present was extremely angry at the behavior of this adventure group, none of the adventurers dared to knock on the door to accuse them, including the big adventure party, because the adventure team in the room was a completely different existence in the minds of the adventurers who were at the bottom of the party, and various rumors from the past also reminded them all the time that no one who dealt with this adventure team would end well.

In fact, the adventurers outside the house did not know that in the cabin, not everyone in the adventurer team was convinced by the order made by their captain to stay in the cabin, and almost half of them, who had not joined for a long time, were arguing with the captain, hoping to make the captain change his mind.

"If you want to participate in the battle, you can do so yourself, and you don't need to follow my orders. Canto Femont, the founder and captain of Femont's team, looked at the dozen or so subordinates who tried his best to persuade him, and said indifferently: "However, if you remember to disobey my orders, you will be automatically removed from the team, and you will no longer be a member of Femont's team." With that, he removed a stack of cash checks from the Lady of the Lake's Church Bank from his backpack beside him, placed them on the table, and said, "This is the reward for your adventure, and I can pay you in advance." ”

Seeing Canto Fermon say such resolute words, those who questioned Canto Fermon were all stunned, they obviously did not expect that just persuading their captain to participate in the defensive battle against pirates turned into a retreat, and everyone was silent for a while.

While it's a good thing to be able to get paid for this adventure in advance, if it comes at the cost of leaving Femon's team, anyone who is a little smarter knows what to do, and some people are even willing to return the reward in exchange for staying in the team.

As the top adventurous team in the world of Velon, the Faemon team can exchange the maximum benefits for the minimum casualties every time they enter those lost cities, and it is even rumored that the captain of the Faymont team, Canto Femon, has mastered a way to safely avoid those monsters, or to keep the monsters from detecting the intruder.

Those newcomers to the Femont team didn't believe in this kind of rumors before joining the team, but after they completed one or two adventure missions, they faintly felt that the rumors might be true, because during the whole adventure, Canto Femont seemed to have a divine revelation, able to know the appearance of monsters and monster attacks in advance, and made targeted arrangements, except for a few stupid and unlucky people, who were not able to follow his arrangement and died at the hands of monsters, and the others were in danger throughout the adventure.

Following Femon's team on an adventure is ten times more rewarding than other teams, and the danger is much smaller than that of other teams, anyone with a little brain knows how lucky it is to be a member of Femont's team.

The atmosphere in the room became solemn and awkward, and the people who had been generously persuading Canto Fermont just now fell silent, and looked at the old team members who were sitting elsewhere, as if they wanted the old team members to intercede, and as for the remuneration on the table, no one touched it, not even looked at it.

However, the veterans were clearly about to live up to the expectations of the newcomers, and they had no intention of pleading, because they knew very well that the reason why Canto Femmon would make such a strong statement was to take this opportunity to educate these newcomers who had not yet tasted the hardships, let them know the importance of following orders, and by the way, weed out those who did not meet the basic requirements of the squad.

In fact, personal combat power only accounts for a small part of the basic conditions for joining the team, because combat power can be cultivated in the later stage, and the most important condition for joining the team is to obey orders.

The surviving elders are well aware of the importance of following orders, as they have all experienced first-hand how one person who did not follow orders and almost destroyed the entire Faimon team, so they are very supportive of Canto Faimon's decision.

However, the only woman among the veteran team members didn't know if she couldn't bear to see the new team members continue to be in this embarrassing situation, or if she didn't like the solemn atmosphere in the room, so she deliberately diverted the topic, pointed to the big box next to Canto Femon, and said: "Those guys must be here for this thing, they want to regain the membership of the Lord of the Sky by regaining this artifact of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, and it is imperative to get this artifact, so don't we prepare for it?"

Canto Fermon looked at the veteran players and said calmly: "Don't worry, I'm ready to prepare." ”

Hearing Canto Femon's words, not only the new team members were at a loss, but even the old team members' faces were full of confusion.

Because they didn't know what Canto Fermon's preparations were, in their memories, after getting on the ship, Canto Fermon had been with them, and the only order issued was to keep everyone in the cabin, even if the captain of the Star of Hope personally came to persuade them to join the battle against the pirates, it still didn't change Cantor Fermon's decision, no matter how you look at it, Canto Fermon doesn't look like he's prepared for the pirate attack.

However, everyone present also knew that Canto Fermont was not a person who liked to talk nonsense, and since he said that he was prepared, he must be prepared, but the preparation in his mouth may be different from the preparation that everyone thought of in their minds.

Either out of trust in Canto Fermon, or perhaps knowing that it was impossible to get an answer from Canto Fermon, no one present asked what Canto Fermont was prepared for.

A slightly younger veteran team member pointed to the big box and asked, as if he wanted to find a random topic to pass the time, "Aren't you going to clean up the contents there?" Although it has already dried up and does not smell much, I am afraid it will be ...... to bring it to the auction house like this."

"That's good, that's what I want, and I'm going to ask the auction house not to clean it up when it's sold. With a smug smile on his face, Canto Fermon reached out and stroked the big box next to him, and said, "I can't wait to see what it looks like for those hypocritical fellows of the Sky Lord Church to see their fetish eaten by monsters, and then pulled out into feces and put on the table for auction." ”

Seeing Canto Femon like this, all the new and old team members present were a little speechless, they knew very well that he, the captain who was very rational even in the face of death, once it came to matters related to the Lord of the Sky Church, he was completely irrational.

At this time, a new team member sitting at the door suddenly changed his face slightly, and then suddenly stood up from the chair, skillfully took out his weapon, aimed it at the door, and reminded everyone, "Something is wrong outside!"

Although it was unclear what was wrong with their companion's mouth, everyone unanimously took out their weapons and aimed them at the two entrances of the cabin, and used their own methods to find and analyze what was wrong with their companion.

"It was so quiet. Someone soon revealed the answer.

Just as this man said, there were all kinds of bustling sounds outside a moment ago, but at this moment, it was as silent outside as a wilderness in the dark night, and even the breathing of everyone in the room seemed to be so harsh as if it had been amplified more than ten times.

"Don't worry, just stay quiet. Compared to the vigilant faces around him, Canto Fermon was obviously very relaxed, he seemed to know what was going on outside, calmed everyone's emotions in a very relaxed tone, and also showed a smile full of meaning on his face, feeling like a hunter who saw his prey take the bait.

Compared to Canto Fermon's ease and confidence, the captain of the Star of Hope is desperate at this moment.

Before, although he didn't think that the defense he had arranged would be able to repel the three bands of pirates, he was very confident that he would be able to hold out the battle until support arrived, and as the horn sounded, the krakens in the nearby waters would inevitably rush to support, and with the help of the krakens, not to mention a dozen pirate ships, even if they added a dozen more ships, they would also die at the bottom of the sea.

It's just that what he never expected was that the enemy's attack was so unexpected, so powerful, and so effective, and before he could understand what was going on, he saw his heavily armed crew members fall asleep one by one, and only a few crew members who were protected by transcendent items on their bodies, or who were transcendent themselves, could barely stay awake, but their bodies were as limp as him. His hands were weak, he couldn't even hold his weapon in this state, and it was impossible to stand, either holding on to the object next to him, or lying on the ground.

"Damn, what's going on?" the captain muttered to himself, looking at the fallen crew and then at the pirate ship that was gradually emerging from the thick fog, his face full of despair, "It's over, we're all done!"

At this time, he thought of Leo Dodd, and thought that if Leo Dodd was really the one he knew, maybe there was hope, and even he was looking forward to seeing Leo Dodd suddenly emerge from the fog and destroy all the pirate ships at sea to get the Star of Hope out of trouble.

However, the captain was disappointed, until the transcendent items on his body lost their effect, and the whole person passed out under the effect of inexplicable power, and the miracle he was expecting did not appear.

At the same time, the pirate ships that were close to the Star of Hope had thrown their hooks out of their hooks and grabbed the side of the ship, ready to jump onto the Star of Hope, but strangely they didn't continue to attack, but instead sailed forward with the Star of Hope, feeling more like protecting the ship.

However, this accompaniment did not last long, and after each of the three pirate flagships lit a striking brazier, the pirates who had been ready to move eagerly jumped to the Star of Hope, and then the well-trained found the unconscious crew, skillfully collected the weapons in the crew's hands, and tied the crew.

As the leaders of the three pirate ships, Henry Sharptooth, Motana, and Jenningt, the old fur dog, paid no attention to the movement on the deck after boarding the ship, they quickly found the passage to the second class as if they were in control of the structure of the Hope Star, and then opened the way by their men and walked towards the second class.

Although they were very confident in their potions and spells, they did not dare to be careless, and what happened afterwards proved that their caution was very correct.

When they entered the main cabin of the second-class cabin, they were attacked, and several passengers with extraordinary strength did not completely lose consciousness, after seeing the pirates, they instinctively raised their mechanical bows and crossbows in their hands to attack, and the pirates who walked in front were killed on the spot because they were too careless, and those passengers seemed to have exhausted their last strength and passed out.

Originally, the men were going to be dismembered on the spot by the angry pirates, but they were stopped by the Sea Witch and suggested that they be sold as slaves, and the other two agreed with the Sea Witch's decision.

Then, without stopping long, they walked straight to the cabin suite of Femont's team.